[1723] UneQUIZocally in Love

contemporary/romance

Hey there! Long time no see.
I got super busy for a while but have finally be able to get back into writing and have fallen into a deep hole of writing this new romance novel idea, because one can never have too many ideas floating around in their heads apparently :)

PLOT:

It's a fake dating story following Nora Smart, who is an avid trivia nerd along with her whole family. When she mistakenly assumes her boyfriend's strange behaviour is pre-proposal jitters she is shellshocked at the colossal dumping that follows and avoids her family and trivia.
When she finally returns to trivia, so does her childhood rival and next-door neighbour, Jamie Ramsey.

Eager to put any whinging about her breakup to rest, Nora accidentally says she's fine about the breakup because she's got a new boyfriend already. Her family puts two and two together that Jamie's return must be because HE is THAT boyfriend. Jamie decides to help Nora out, pretending to be her boyfriend for a month. But their fake relationship suddenly gets all the more complicated the longer they're in it and soon Nora realises the rivalry she was holding onto was pointless and Jamie is way different than she thought.

Obviously that's the whole novel concept, and not this chapter, just wanted to provide context.

THIS is the first 3/4 of the fourth chapter where Nora finally meets back up with her family and my major concern is that a LOT of people are introduced all at once. Her family is big and they're all at the trivia night and I'm worried it's getting confusing referring to all these people or that some people kind of disappear in the background.

*Note: You meet her mother in the previous chapter, and she mentions both Mandy and Charlotte in previous chapters as her sister and sister's girlfriend so you know who they are in this chapter even if you haven't met them yet. Not sure if that information helps.

Other feedback wanted:

- Do they seem like a real family? Real characters? Do you get a feel for who everyone is so far?

- Is there anything missing? Are you ever confused?

- Does the name work? I've been trying for a bunch of silly puns relating to love and quiz and thought a combination of "Unequivocal love" and "quiz" kinda worked but it feels like it might work better said aloud than on paper.
- Literally any other thoughts you could possibly have. Have at 'em :)
Excerpt: [Link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XCPy3cbxCwKb8Y5U-EWuGDW1uz2MxjlGs9tH5vYJGOw/edit?usp=sharing)
Crit: 2204

Posted Apr 25, 2024, 7:40 PM UTC

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